Anything else, I would have taken pictures and left it there. But because it was this one-in-a-million, incredible fossil, I ...

A routine fishing trip on the Alabama River turned extraordinary when a family spotted what would become a scientific ...

People from around the world come to Glenrock to dig 67-million-year-old fossils from T. rex, Triceratops, and other famous ...

The Coleman’s were on the Alabama river in Clarke County when they discovered a fossilized shell of a leatherback sea turtle.

The Coleman family discovers a 32-million-year-old leatherback sea turtle fossil during a family fishing trip near Jackson, Alabama.

“When we came across that, we all just kind of stared at each other for a minute, like ‘This is it,’” said Adrienne Coleman, ...

LAWRENCE—The Kansas Geological Survey has released a new full-color geologic map of Jewell County, where an ancient inland ...

Amateur fossil collector Kent Gibson stumbled into the hobby by chance. Now, his collection of thousands has made it to the Smithsonian collection.

A chance glance at a museum display has led to the first-ever discovery of an ichthyosaur fossil in western Japan, dating back around 220 million years. Initially mistaken for a common bivalve fossil, ...

Scientists have identified a 50-million-year-old fossil sea turtle in northern Syria, marking the country’s first formally described fossil vertebrate species. The discovery, detailed inPapers in ...